Tzu-Jung Lin, Ph.D. ’12 Ed.Psych., has been selected as a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.
The fellowship award is a $70,000 grant intended to provide release time from teaching and administrative duties, and it may also be used for other costs associated with research.
Dr. Lin is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies of the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. Her concentration at Illinois was in cognitive science of teaching and learning.
Her primary research interests focus on uncovering the mechanisms of social and cognitive development in the complex classroom social system, and developing effective instructional approaches to cultivate an epistemically and socially supportive classroom learning environment.
Dr. Lin has used microgenetic and mixed-method approaches to examine the moment-by-moment dynamics of children’s relational thinking and the proximal influences of peer relationships and teacher scaffolding on children’s reasoning development in the context of collaborative small-group discussions.
